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Spoke to Mason, he believes he will be back for Grundy

If you wish to stop the personal attacks and discuss football that would be best, we can agree to disagree on football issues. I believe I am supporting the kids by calling the coaches out for their incompetence, you disagree that is fine, convince me what they are doing correct. I think having parents that are not faculty on the staff is a problem, so if that is part of what you are saying by parent influences we agree, though I don't think that is what you are saying, I could agree with you on the call if he did not go to the press box and throw the boys under the bus as an excuse. He should have Manned up and took responsibility for it either way.

I have certainly been critical of our coaching staff, much to the dismay of some of our fans, but the last two times you good folks from Sequatchie have been here there has been controversy, last time for a middle school game a few years back story is you brought a high school freshman running back to use against us, this time throwing smoke bombs onto field. Maybe time to grow up.

My goodness man get a brain, you want to make this personal, the term is sour grapes. I will call you Rosie, for the Rosie scenario you see. Sorry if you are one of the coaches or kinfolk of one. The current group of jrs. and srs. are the tail end of some great Crush teams and my expectation is that we should be competing for championships. This has been squandered by samber, wright and the administration. I have supported these kids for years, at both High schools, and many sports, buying the things they sell (popcorn, laundry soap etc.), donating too their lifting and buying things at the auctions, and rooting from the stands for many sports. You want to debate the state of athletics at YAI? you can bury your head in the sand, but it is the kids I am standing up for they deserve better. I will post the facts as I see them. I will leave you with this one. Our head coach gets on the radio after losing a two score lead and the game and defends his decision to go for it 4th and short deep in your own end with little time left by saying I asked the kids what they wanted to do.

Ole "soured grapes" here, so YAI now sits 0-4 and last place in the standings, but we're told its because of the schedule. thought this staff were genius'. they are now 2-12 under samber and with all due respect to Cannon and Grundy, we haven't beat anyone of consequence. in fact it not for the first two plays of the second half at Grundy I think we lose that one last year also. so now we hope we can beat Cannon and Grundy this year, then hopefully sneak up on Upperman or Smith to make the playoffs and all will be well correct.

no one on or off the team, old guy here. can remember Joe Willy in fur guarantying a win in the super bowl, just hate to see the level of play, we done

You are correct that there are 19 seniors on the current roster, but as we posted earlier this year how many are returning experienced players. I do not know where these kids came from if they just came out or played as freshman, but I don't think you can represent this as 19 experienced seniors. I do not want to get in a pissing match about all this, I hope for the kids sake I am wrong and they turn things around, I am just stating the facts don't back up sambers hype.

I think you make my point, what age was Coach Herron then. a lot of guys can cook a steak, they can't all run the restaurant. However bringing up that Upperman team, I was told that they had twenty seniors that had been together since freshman year or before. this is something else that bothers me about the program at York. The current senior class had 27 kids on the squad when they came in as freshman, surely they were not all starter material but best I can tell there are only nine or ten left. seems like a lost opportunity to me.

Without getting into schemes, fundamentals or positioning at this time, as I said earlier in the year in my option you cannot play underclassmen in key positions and expect them to compete, I did not know at the time that several of the underclassman are related to parents helping to coach. further a twenty-something, head coach and likewise defensive coordinator are to inexperienced and immature for this job. Again in my option. So ask the question is there a winning, successful program out there starting a number of underclassmen? With parents on the coaching staff? and a twenty-something head coach?

Unless the administration makes a dramatic change to the staff, things will not get much better. There are too many unconventional things going on with this program that are not conducive to a winning program.

For the kids I hope you are correct and they do well, but there are only about 13 seniors on the roster if they all stay, had players quit last week, There are about 7 senior starters as of now, you will still see a number of underclassman starting. Just think it hard for Fr., So. too go up against Jrs. and Srs.